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Survey Finds 80% of Executives Regret Return to Office Policies

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What’s going on: A survey found that 80% of company executives and bosses regret their initial decisions regarding their return-to-office (RTO) policies, according to CNBC. The future of work is likely to see a more collaborative approach to decision-making, emphasizing employee feedback.

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Beyond Mandates: Shifting From Command And Control To Human-Centric Gathering Strategies

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Compliance with these blanket policies burns leadership resources, decreases retention, and erodes employee engagement. However, these blanket policies are detrimental to organizational trust, employee engagement, and culture. Then combined with purpose-driven in-person collaboration, where the team will truly benefit.

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What’s In It For Me? Why It’s Crucial To Give Your Employees A Return-on-Commute

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The return-on-commute (ROC) concept is emerging as a critical factor in attracting employees back to the office by ensuring that the workplace offers a tangible and meaningful return on the investment of time, effort, and cost that employees commit to when traveling to work.

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Cisco Redesigns Office Spaces for its Hybrid Workforce

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Why it matters: Hybrid work policies are important trends that influence how companies manage their workforce and design their workspaces. The hybrid work model does have its challenges — including decreased in-person team collaboration.

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Is Flexibility Going Away?

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The sunk cost fallacy can lead leaders to continue an unsuccessful hybrid workplace policy rather than getting needed advice and training to improve their approach. The company thus adopted a hybrid workplace policy allowing employees to work both remotely and in-office. CEOs intended to decrease remote work availability.

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What Is The Impact Of Hybrid Working On Space Optimization?

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Real estate costs can be reduced by downsizing the amount of space needed and allowing for flexible desk booking policies. Does this bring with it an opportunity to save costs? However, other costs will need to be considered to optimize the space you keep. Working policies. So how do you set up these policies?

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Generative AI to Propel Australia into a New Era of Productivity and Employment

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However, according to the report, there “could be a time lag between technical potential and realized change — developing capabilities into technical solutions takes time, the cost of implementing solutions may exceed the cost of human labor, and the pace of adoption could be influenced by social or regulatory dynamics.”

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